Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Martin-in-the-Fields]
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regard to the first Trustees to be appointed; and the
same Commissioners shall from time to time, upon
being satisfied of the sufficiency of any list so to be
submitted to them, by Order under their Seal, appoint
from such list or lists a person or persons to supply
such vacancy or vacancies.
Clerk and
Receiver.
5. The Trustees shall appoint some fit and proper
person or persons to be their Clerk, and to be the
Receiver of the rents and income of the charity. The
Trustees may, if they see fit, combine the two offices
in one person. The stipends for Clerk and Receiver
shall not together exceed £30 per annum.
The Clerk and Receiver shall hold office during the
approbation of the Trustees. The Receiver shall give
such security as they shall direct.
Duties of
the Clerk.
6. The duties of the Clerk shall be to attend the
Trustees at their meetings, to attend and give information
to any Committee appointed by them, to enter
the minutes of the proceedings at their meetings, to
keep the accounts of the charity, and to furnish and
send such duplicates thereof, statements, and balance
sheets as the Trustees may by law be bound to supply,
to preserve, subject to their directions, all vouchers for
payments made on behalf of the charity, to make once
in every year a detailed account of the receipts and
payments on behalf of the charity during the preceding
year, which shall be vouched and passed before the
Trustees at their first General Meeting in each year,
or at some adjournment thereof, and also a statement
of the assets and liabilities of the charity, to make out
an abstract of such account if required, and to perform
all such other duties and acts appertaining to the office
of Clerk in respect of the charity and the management
thereof as the Trustees shall direct.
Duties of
Receiver.
7. The duties of the Receiver shall be to see that
the covenauts contained in the leases of the charity
property are properly performed, to collect and receive